Lise Olsen — interviewed by NPR here — blew up the case; Cantu’s jury forewoman and the district attorney who tried him for his life are among those who have publicly regretted their roles in what has emerged one of the most compelling cases of an executed innocent in the modern American death penalty era. Nobody could possibly have predicted that pitiable public defender resources and an extremely aggressive capital punishment regime could result in such a thing.

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Aren’t you letting your personal bias against capital punishment show a bit here? Street gang members are like the terrorists and Al Qaida, they lie to mess with the system, and aren’t very credible witnesses.

How old and how misinformed is this person? and I quote:”Aren’t you letting your personal bias against capital punishment show a bit here? Street gang members are like the terrorists and Al Qaida, they lie to mess with the system, and aren’t very credible witnesses.”